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INFO ROUTIFE HKGO WASHINGTON, HKGO BRUSSELS, HKGO GENEVA, INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON, HKGO NEH-YAPK

INFO ROUTIFE UKMIS GENEVA

HONG KONG AGREEMENT: PRESS COVERAGE : WEEKLY POUNDUP. UNDUP.

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16 JAN 1986

1. THE ACTIVITIES OF LU PING HAVE DRAWN CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION THIS WEEK. POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES TO BE A MAJOR TALKING POINT. THE NATIONALITY ISSUE HAS ALSO BEEN A MAJOR TOPIC, AND PRESS REACTION HAS BEEN REPORTED SEPARATELY TO YOU AND PEKING IN MY TELNO 118.

NEWS COVERAGE.

2. LU PING AND BASIC LAW: LU HAS HAD AN ACTIVE PROGRAMME MEETING HK MEMBERS OF THE BLDC, MEMBERS OF THE FLCC, LEGAL FICUPES AND HK MEMBERS OF THE NPC AND CPPCC. LU SAID HE WOULD NOT ONLY LISTEN TO

PUBLIC VIEWS BUT WOULD ALSO SEE FOP HIMSELF VARIOUS FACETS OF HK IN. ORDER TO GET A BETTER FEELING ABOUT THE TERRITORY. LU SAID THE BLDC SECRETARIAT HAD ESTABLISHED TWO GROUPS, ONE TO GATHEP VIEWS FROM THE PUBLIC AND THE PRESS, AND THE OTHER TO PROCESS THE VIEWS AND PREPARE DISCUSSION PAPERS FOR THE BLDC. MR. MARTIN LEE SAID THAT THE JOB OF COLLECTING PUBLIC OPINION ON THE BL WAS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BLCC. SZETO WAH COMPLAINED TO LU ABOUT A PRESS FRIEFING CALLED BY BLCC DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SIU SIN-BOR IN WHICH HE HAD DISCUSSED HK'S POLITICAL REFORMS. SZETO COMPLAINED THAT SIU HAD NO RIGHT TO DO SO: WHILE SIU SAID HE HAD ONLY SPOKEN IN HIS PRIVATE CAPACITY AND HAD NOT SPOKEN ON NCNA INSTRUCTIONS.

3. LU REITERATED YESTERDAY THAT THE DRAFTING OF THE. BL WAS AN INTERNAL MATTER FOR CHINA AND THERE WAS NO MEED TO CONSULT BRITAIN. HE SAID THE EL WOULD SPELL OUT IN LEGAL LANGUAGE THE PROVISIONS OF ANNEX 1 OF THE JOINT DECLARATION WHICH CONTAINED CHINA'S POLICIES TOWARDS HK. THE CHIAPMAN OF MEETING POINT AGREED THAT ANNEX 1 WAS UNILATERAL, AND SAID CHINA HAD PUT ITS POLICIES FORWARD IN THIS WAY SO THAT BRITAIN HAD NO POWER OF INTERPRETATION OVER IT. MR. JUSTICE LI EXPRESSED THE HOPE TO LU THAT THE FUTURE COURT OF FINAL APPEAL IN HK SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO INTERPRET THE BL AND THAT THE LEGISLATURE COULD INTRODUCE CHANGES

TO IT.

4. THEPE WAS CONTROVERSY OVER THE USE OF TWO PHRASES. LU PING SAID THAT HK PEOPLE RULING HK HAD NOT BEEN MENTIONED FOR SOME

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